Grief Support Group
For Adults
The Grief Support Group is designed to provide current IPG clients with additional support as they move along their grief journey. The group will provide participants with a space to share the unique details of their grief story, process their grief, learn coping mechanisms to handle various emotions resulting from their grief, and help relieve any traumatic grief reactions or complicated grief which can arise if one’s loss remains “bottled up” or “shoved under the rug.”
This is a repeating-cycle group, loosely guided by this schedule:
Week 1: Feelings and emotions
Week 2: Loss
Week 3: Living with Grief
Week 4: Ways to remember
Week 5: Process
Week 6: Grief Changes
Week 7: Celebrate Life and Growth
Week 8: Using the skills day to day/ Process
When is the group?
Wednesdays from 7pm-8pm
When is the group beginning?
TBD, Currently Enrolling
Where are the groups being held?
Insight Psychological Group – Springfield Office
150 Morris Ave. Suite 302
Springfield, NJ 07081
Who is it open to?
Adults ages 21+
Cost
Copay/Coinsurance as determined by a client’s insurance, or $45 per week without using insurance
Group Leader
Cynthia Velasquez, LAMFT
Participants must also be in individual therapy (either at IPG or elsewhere) in order to attend our groups. If you are not already in therapy, you may additionally fill out our regular new client appointment form, to have you set up with an individual therapist as well.
To proceed with registering for group therapy, click on the link below. After filling out your application expressing interest, we will be in touch with you to have you fill out the special group therapy consent form and answer any questions you may have, and then connect you with the group leader for an orientation phone call prior to attending your first group.
Cynthia Velasquez, LAMFT
Group Leader
Cynthia Velasquez is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who received her Masters in Psychology from Kean University. Cynthia works with individuals and families who struggle with a variety of issues related to depression, anxiety, high risk behavior, addiction, trauma, and grief. Prior to joining IPG, she worked as a clinician and group coordinator at High Focus Centers’ Partial Hospital and Intensive Outpatient Programs, helping adolescents and adults learn coping skills, grounding techniques, and effective communications skills to manage their symptoms before they could move to a lower risk treatment environment. Cynthia is a compassionate and engaging therapist who strives to provide the highest quality treatment which empowers individuals to achieve their utmost potential.